skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so. It seems more like a story of corporate blundering. They shipped an incredibly popular game that was a breakout hit. 6 months later, changed the requirements (for no reason other than shortsighted greed) such that people in something like 70 countries could no longer play the game. Backlash ensued, and the reputation of the game is in the mud compared to where it was before.
I've seem zed a few times now, but I've always dismissed it as it was mac only. I'm now looking at features and it seems like a good base for "the last code editor I'll use" :D
If you can't afford to protect people from cars, then you can't afford cars.
Show HN: I built a product to make copy writing easy with AI
You can remove all the AI stuff from the settings

"collaboration_panel": {
"button": false
},
"assistant": {
"version": "1",
"button": false
},
"chat_panel": {
"button": false
},
"notification_panel": {
"button": false
},
No, you still didn't get the context right.

But digital libraries do really suck.
Where can you read more on that matter of it answering your question rather than asking more?
Fern (YC W23) Is Hiring a Customer-Centric Software Engineer in NYC
This is far from the first time Sony has been called out for their consumer-hostile behaviour. Sony used to install rootkit-based DRM on customer's computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
That's quite a screed.
Professional Aptitude vs. Tenure (2022)
I recently built a quick grammar fixer, leveraging the Alfred[0] MacOS app and OpenAI, if that counts for you. It's open source, and the demo video is cool: https://github.com/alfonmga/grammar-fix-alfred-workflow.

[0] https://www.alfredapp.com
I've experienced LLMs forgetting details (no memory). This is expecially a problem when the information is out of the context window, but I've seen it in other cases as well.

I've experienced LLMs lacking spatial awareness, such as switching locations in a description despite no indication of moving to the new location. The same applies to other concepts that have a visual/spatial component.

I've also experienced LLMs struggling to get subtext, some metaphors, etc., especially when used in casual conversations instead of as a question/answer style prompt.

LLMs are great, but need more work to fix these gaps.
My accent seems to translate very well through the app, tho. The tool "only" changes color, pitch, tone, etc. not _how_ I say stuff, i.e. pronounciation, choice of words, ...
Last I checked, text was very blurry, so it's unusable for me

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
I had this history teacher in high school giving the class an assignment to write an essay on the events leading up to the Second World War. The first question that came up was how long does this essay need to be – to which the teacher replied that if you can cover this complex topic on one single A4 that would give you full score on the assignment – but that he sincerely doubted that anyone could cover such a complex topic in such a short amount of text. Everyone was mind blown by this argumentation. Nobody had ever heard a teacher say anything like that and that kind of shows how we already as kids are thought that more is always better.
I believe that homomorphic encryption is one of those technologies that is too dangerous to develop. It is one step to a path where any person on earth will eventually have access to enormous amounts of computation. Is that a good thing? Well, it means one can do high-powered AI research on chemical and biological weapons or advanced malware by using high-powered compute clusters that they may not otherwise have access to. Moreoever, it will be impossible to detect since the computations themselves are encrypted.
NYU professors who defended vaping didn't disclose ties to Juul
I can type with two fingers faster than I can type with full hands. I’m still trying to get my touch typing up to the speed of my two fingers.

I spent two years typing with just my forefingers, and can dk 80wpm with 99+ accuracy and I don’t look at the keyboard.

With two hands I’m still at 60-65 roughly and with worse accuracy but I’m sure it will come with time.
I think what this argument is missing is the emergent properties of the LLM.

In order to “predict the next word”, the LLM doesn’t just learn the most likely word from a corpus for the preceding string. If that were true, it would not generalise outside of its training set.

The LLM learns about the structure of the language, the context, and in the process of doing so constructs a model of the world as represented by words.

Admittedly the model is still limited, but it seems to me that there is something more insightful to be gleaned here: that given enough data, and sufficient pressure to learn, that excelling at scale on a relatively simple task leads indirectly to a form of intelligence.

For me the biggest takeaway of LLMs might be that “intelligence is pretty cheap, actually” and that the human brain is not so remarkable as we’d like to believe.
If it was compatible as a VST plugin for DAWs it would be even more useful than a standalone software. From skimming through the website it seems that Supertone already make a VST plugin so it may be a matter of time before Shift becomes a VST too.
It's the other way around actually: standard jq but with AI capabilities.
More resources in projects such as https://gist.github.com/theprojectsomething/a8406ba6be3ed333...
I read the article and oddly enough I have to admit I share some of its vibe. You see, when Sama was on his previous tour, I expected to learn something interesting regarding the future of LLMs. Instead, the gu talks for hours on how they are making a new cryptocurrency, and have a plan to scan the retinas of all humans on Earth and so on. Seriously, it was a very weird and unsettling experience.

In any case, it was clear that he doesn't care at all about the "Open" part of OpenAI and that he sees a future where everybody use OpenAI services rather than having their own, powerful private models. I'd say our interests are very much in opposition.
Oh, thanks, I'll look into that. I didn't know that was possible (I searched around a little but couldn't find it.) Does this disable connecting to an AI server though or just hide the buttons?
No. They sold the game worldwide, and the FAQ explicitly said linking an account was worldwide, then they switched on the requirement and changed the FAQ.

Except it's impossible to create a PSN account in a lot of countires, countries where it was possible to buy and play the game and now it's too late for a refund, so people are stuck with a game they now can't play anymore.

Then they proceeded to gaslight people ("it just takes 2 minutes").

Then they withdrew the game from 177 countries (out of ~195 depending how you count), so people not only they couldn't buy it anymore, but people who had already bought it lost access to it.

It's a shitshow, they completely destroyed players' trust with this.
I wondered about the same thing. Even though some parts of Emacs feel old it's still the best editor IMHO
Same goes for humans
That's a very good analogy because they had to stop using scalpels in brain surgery because the surgeons kept making mistakes.

Tools must be designed so that they're difficult to use incorrectly. That's why we have guards and interlocks on any tool more complicated than a shovel.
What do you mean, doesn’t work out? X forwarding works amazingly well, far above rdp…
Thanks! That one looks cool, but apparently is unmaintained: https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP
Agreed, at the very least it doesn't seem to change _my_ accent, just things like color, tone, pitch, etc.
Excel is a great example.

The idea is fantastic. Programmers are too harsh on excel.

Unfortunately Microsoft haven't really updated excel in decades. They've added tweaks here and there, and made a really clumsy attempt at integrating python, but it's potential is shockingly untapped considering it's at getting on for twice as old as me.
How about 10 bollards per sold car, you can probably get away with $ 1k per bollard (including installation), most cars cost a multiple of 10k. Let‘s see how far that gets you. You can of course modify the bollard tax by car weight or by price.
Radio astronomers bypass Earth's atmosphere with new calibration technique
Ah yes, freedom of speech works best when limited only to people who share your values. Truly our greatest allies in democracy.
the lengths Sony and other media publishers go to “protect” their IP is insane.
Show HN: A tool to have conversation with AI
Record yourself talking and send to get response from the ai
> There’s so many projects that just seem to call out to the OpenAI api even though they say something silly like “99% local.”

That used to be the case for lots of business-facing products that wanted to capitalize on the hype quickly a year ago but I think the dust has settled (?)

For developer tools, however things like llamafile are pretty much the standard.
Not to mention the pain of maintaining multiple keys, different response formats etc.
Possibly part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppression_Olympics

Meaning if you want to compete in the olympics, you need to justify it to yourself. This includes grouping others with you.
Has anyone been able to run it? I'm getting reports of things not being implemented for Linux:

[2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/zed/src/main.rs:192: could not find git binary path

Caused by:
Platform<LinuxPlatform>::path_for_auxiliary_executable is not implemented yet
[2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/settings/src/settings_file.rs:76: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0
[2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/zed/src/zed.rs:661: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0
> we know not to build a house on a bad foundation, but somehow built our techstack on a flimsy one

Good analogy. Extending it further, homebuilders have liability and regulation for safety, while software has been a contest of incentives for creation, extraction and influence. With the convergence of "cyber" and physical reality, liability is coming to software development.

Alan Kay's VPRI has a few papers on new approaches to software, https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Papers_from_Viewpoints_Re...

https://tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/M2013004_agere.pdf

The software for today’s personal computing environments has become so complex that no single person can understand an entire system. Our group’s early experiences with personal computing led us to understand that the essential model of personal computing can be expressed much more compactly. Our group engaged in.. the STEPS project) to materialize that vision over the last six years.. There are various meta-language implementations. A new stream-processing language called Nile was invented. The syntax of Nile allows a fully-featured vector graphics engine.. to be written in a clean, mathematical manner in less than 500 lines of code.

.. Another direction is to take the idea of loose-coupling to the next level; objects should not know about other objects directly but should always negotiate and “find” other objects.. J.C.R. Licklider already foresaw the need for program components to discover each other on a huge network of computers. From that viewpoint, what we are trying to do is to carry the vision forward.
One thing that I didn't enjoy when taking Zed for a spin was the default of prettifying my code on-save. I feel like that's something that shouldn't be enabled by default. People are most likely going to try and jump in editing an existing project, and don't want the entire file getting reformatted.
You are literally constructing a narrative that western news media makes the decisions on the Ukrainian battlefield.
Cool. The only thing I was aware of is this one:

"features": {
"copilot": false
}
It did at least reveal the playbook, and that you have to get pretty creative to hide things in plain sight.

I'm sure any binary blobs in OSS software, no matter what the reason for having them will be viewed with suspicion, and build scripts get extra inspection after that.

Maybe I'm naive in thinking that some people are already looking into packages that are included in all base Linux builds? Including simplifying the build env, and making sure that the the build tools themselves (cmake, pkgconfig, gmake, autotools etc) are also not compromised.
Career consultant says Gen Z are misusing AI
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The investigation could reveal the cyclist hit the van, by say, running a stop sign (as cyclists love to do).
Seems like ground.news is just very bad, I wouldn't rely on it.

It was very easy to find other sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evi...

Note that the work is from 2016.
> and that the human brain is not so remarkable as we’d like to believe.

Well, it IS pretty seamlessly integrated with a very impressive suite of sensors.
It's written in some GUI framework where I'm unable to resize, maximize or minimize the window.
Stunningly, not all of them are correct.

It’s actually not a sign of intelligence or honesty to be able to squint so hard that you see no meaningful differences between e.g. the US and Russia/Iran/China. It’s just called closing your eyes.
It is not only about requiring the sony account in countries where it is not available. It is also about forcing players to log into yet another useless account, when the game is bought from steam. This practice is widely hated by gamers everywhere. If I buy a game on Steam, why would I be required to log in to some other account or launcher to actually start the game.

The publishers wish to somehow capture the players with their own launchers, but this is never going to do them any good and is widely hated.
Everyone Hates Workday
Counting of wheezing events from lung sounds using deep learning algorithms
I think a lot of people have tried to "low code" this problem. The issue is that everyone has their preferred tech stack and low-code typically only has one choice. Using a DSL for logic (conditionals in yaml strings), or a bespoke language (like DarkLang or WaspLang), is a difficult sell. Developers want to use their language of choice with real programming constructs.

The most interesting approach, the sort of holy grail if you will, is to write your code as a single application, and then the system figures out how to distribute it if/when needed. ServiceWeaver is this concept in Go

https://serviceweaver.dev/

Reddit "critiquing" ServiceWeaver: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1962avu/a_goog...
I wish I had the time and energy to unpack this. I hope someone else does.
> You ultimately can't become a bigger tent across demographics while also shrinking your tent in terms of admissions selectivity.

Whether or not this is strictly true in a mathematical sense, assuming a static applicant pool (a faulty but common assumption), the fact that this is such a knee-jerk response even from commenters here on HN is really depressing.

Are we so conditioned to think of disadvantaged groups as inferior that the idea of expanding access to members of historically under-represented groups appears to you to be definitionally at odds with being a selective institution?
> This is great news, and I hope Sony gets some well-deserved praise for this.

What? If someone holds you up at gunpoint but decides to let you go after you scream for the police, they dont get praise they get jail time.

Sony did nothing right in a situation where the right thing would have been to do nothing at all to begin with. They decided to try to strangle a huge success for the sake of cash. The fact that They reverted after the game ene from “overwhelmingly positive” to “overwhelmingly negative” and they got bombed with refund requests isn’t something to praise, it’s a given. They realized that they fucked up royally and that their plan to spin the community to PSN would not work so they stopped.

The people deserving praise are the players and the community that united against Sony, and the developers and leads who listened to the community and honestly and openly said “if you don’t like it speak up, we can’t change the decision but Sony will have to listen to the response”
All correct, but this still isn’t a unique scenario. Many games that have been very loved with a very active community have had the same requirement over the years, helldivers wasn’t anything new.

I suspect this was just a case of the internet caught hold of something and went nuts as it normally does. Was the outcome positive? Absolutely, but it isn’t a new scenario like everyone’s acting it is.
Even in more recent times, the entire PS5 life thus far has been riddled with consumer-hostile behavior (promising free upgrades and then walking back from it, forcing people to use the new controllers even if the PS4 ones are perfectly capable to play the new games, increasing prices of games and consoles, bullying companies so they don't support cross-platform play etc)
I had to look it up but apparently ctrl + F4 closes a tab.
What am I meant to once I have highlighted text? The export buttons don't even use them
They are, but that's not the motivation given in the example.
I have used it only once, when I needed to inspect and lightly edit a giant json (50 GBs or so) and other editors got stuck on it.

It lacks so many features that others have that it makes no sense for me to use it as a daily editor.
I’m using Zed on macOS and like it so far. Only thing I wish they add is remote development like VSCode has. Zed seems to be focusing on collaborative development and the integrated AI assistant, but feels like remote programming is something closer to a lot more people’s use cases. I’d be willing to pay for a seamless remote experience with Zed.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned in siblings yet: the bulk of the money, more if you lean further towards capacity in the capacity vs throughput decision, is in the excavation. This is not only a "forever" investment, it's also money spent on the local economy. This isn't the case at all for battery cost, unless you happen to be the world center of the battery business, all the way from mine to recycling.

Another aspect, completely unrelated and I'm not sure hydrostor already makes that part of the design (but it could totally be introduced later, without invalidating any of the excavation investment): some of the energy stored in an A-CAES system is stored as heat. When you do need heat, for a district heating system, for a swimming pool site or whatever, you can decouple some of the heat from the pressure storage. Worst case some of the joules repurposed end up missing in discharge, but it's also possible that they are simply joules not lost to cycle inefficiency. And if you happen to need cooling (datacenter on site?), at the time of discharge you can just keep some of the stored heat untapped, substituting with energy from the warm end of the coolant cycle that you want to freeload on the A-CAES. Compared to other waste heat/cold coupling schemes, at hydrostor pressure levels you would get considerably higher heat/cold deltas to work with. Huge potential, and with the reservoir shaft having very few site requirements, coupling opportunities should be plentiful (as compared to e.g. opportunities that only ever arise in remote valleys)
Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs
Sort of interesting, but I think does not negate the point. A dual income household is not necessarily a dual income married couple. For the purpose of calculating dual income households, you have to consider non married romantic partners and even just relatives and roommates. And again, retirees dropping things down.

I cannot find stats going back, but a majority of current households today are dual income. https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2020/article/comparing-characte...

This effect of the median family being dual income is likely true for now, and false for 1940. It is much stronger if you subset down to "families", but this nuance doesn't likely appear in the "median household income".
How do they work around the ”heat problem” with compressed air storage. When you compress the air, it heats up, and actually there's a big part of the energy that get stored in the form of heat, not pressure. When you want the energy out the pressured air cools down during depressurization.

If you were able to keep the air hot the whole time the process is almost symmetrical so that's not an issue, the “heat problem” as I call it is how do you store this heat for an extended period of time? At scale, it's much harder to keep than just the pressurized air.

The prototypes I've seen in the past were not storing the heat, but relied on industrial fatal heat (that was lost anyway) but this also has scale problem as you don't have that much available power except near very specific industries (NPP are an option, as are other heavy industries, but the supply is necessarily limited)
All this technology is leading to a world where we can present second-life/alternative identities cohesively online. I wonder if this is going to cause a global decline in the ability for people to express themselves, since it is now so easy to create an identity online that is different than your real-life identity.

I think it's rather sad. Yes, there are some fringe use-cases perhaps but I think this is the wrong direction for humanity. We should find more value in what we already have rather than inventing arbitrary things like this to hide away from real acceptance of ourselves.
> But the RA are used primarily in the later phases of the approach.

Indeed, the context of my sentence was using it for ground avoidance.

> General aviation aircraft are quite frequently well-equipped with instrumentation for IFR ops.

Yes, but most GA flights are VFR flights. Again, the context was ground avoidance and my point was that since they are usually used for VFR, more advanced means of ground avoidance are not generally required.
How does FHE lead to people getting access to more computation?
It's not starting for me on Linux, where do you want me to report?
Show HN: Represent Minecraft Worlds as NFTs
Server that allows to bind minecraft builds to NFTs that allows to sell or transfer them.
This prototype is built with Minestorm framework that does not use mojang code at all and NFTs are minted on testnet of TON blockchain supported by Telegram.
You don't need any wallet to try it, just latest minecraft version.
But what if you disagree with the underlying political ideology of DEI, ie the mandating equality of outcome over equality of opportunity? That's apparently a political opinion you are not allowed to hold if you are going through those application processes (and I have seen the same in the promotion process of large corporations). Is that acceptable? Do I also need to be a registered democrat to apply? I think it is morally bankrupt and reminiscent of the hollywood blacklist days.
Have you considered that people do things for fun? They may not care about some abstract concept of "success"? Maybe writing their own DE is exactly the "success" they wanted.

Also, being a cog in a wheel does nothing but perpetuate the wheel. If the wheel has a flat tire, or the wheel isn't round, or the wheel is going in the wrong direction, then being a cog provides no benefit to anyone.
Very rare for a multibillion dollar company to bend the knee.

All it took was a 3-4 day campaign of PR hell, and refunds from around the globe to get them to move an inch.

I bet Sony has a backlog issue to make account creation globally available. Then at that point, there will be nothing to stop them from forcing it down everyones throat.

What I have heard is that in some countries (UK?), Sony requires identity verification to register an account ( similar to “id.me” or login.gov) for a gaming service.

Shit is wild
Where can I find details like this about Rust?
they say, writing from an ocean planet